Archives & Crimes by Iman Mersal sound so it is impossible to

so it is impossible to know for sure her origins

We glimpse the artist’s now-iconic mixed media works

I lived and worked in Manchester in the early 2000’s

The first exhibition of Virilio's Bunker Archaeology photographs was staged at the Centre Pompidou in 1975

transient and hybrid identities

Archives & Crimes by Iman Mersal sound so it is impossible toArchives & Crimes by Iman Mersal (translated by Robin Moger). A dead body may be full of holes, an archive may have missing documents. What happened here? To comprehend a story, we take partial evidence and try to fill in the gaps. We research to unlock the mystery, urgently, forensically. We gather what we can, and solve it, or invent an explanation and close the case, or we abandon it, leaving the story to stare back at us across time. Part crime